A reflection on the Millennium Development Goals by Joseph Donnelly What do you do when you lose everything? What do you do when you lose everything all at once, in a flash, a nano-second? What do you do? Questions come to mind in all kinds of ways and places – for us, for me. Just [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Economic Justice’
June 17, 2010
Caritas voices against poverty No.5
By Joseph Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis Permanent Delegate to the UN in New York Still managing Millennium Development Goals moments: UN hearings echo NGO voices Another UN meeting, not a conference but Hearings. Member States unseated in General Assembly Hall to make room for Civil Society. NGOs, Private Sector and CSOs “sharing the floor” side by [...]
June 14, 2010
Caritas voices against poverty No. 4
By Joseph Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis Permanent Delegate to the UN MDG2010 Summit was conceived as a significant opportunity to galvanize commitments, address past promises toward urgent implementation and reignite global, regional and national actions to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The Millennium Development Goals are a series of anti-poverty targets. Part of [...]
June 8, 2010
Zeroing in on poverty in Europe
By Patrick Nicholson, Madrid “Works not words are what matters,” said Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga at the recent European Congress on Poverty and Social Exclusion in Madrid. “Works are love.” The Caritas Internationalis President urged delegates at the meeting in his keynote address to look beyond the statistics of poverty and to find the human [...]
May 28, 2010
Caritas voices against poverty No.3
By Joseph Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis Permanent Delegate at the UN As the UN’s MDG2010Summit gains increasing attention toward September, the priority issues for CARITAS remain precisely the same around the world. Eradicate suffering more and more everyday – to SAVE LIVES NOW! End poverty.Stop the scandal of hunger in a world of plenty. Educate all children [...]
May 20, 2010
Caritas voices against poverty No: 2
Caritas promotes the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of eight targets aimed improving the lives of poor people now and dramatically diminishing the extreme suffering of women, men and children everywhere. Voices Against Poverty By Joseph Donnelly, Permanent Representative of Caritas Internationalis to the UN in New York We, the Peoples… We belong to one another.
May 18, 2010
Caritas voices against poverty No:1
By Joseph Donnelly, Head of Caritas Delegation at UN headquarters in New York Ten years ago 189 Member States found themselves seized at the United Nations turn of the century meetings. Seized by the vast, grave social and economic needs, and injustices, around the world. In a somewhat surprising, resounding manner they seemed to use their national and [...]
February 15, 2010
Valentine’s Day with the Pope
Available in French and Spanish By Michelle Hough, Caritas Internationalis It’s 8.30am on Valentine’s Day, I’m at Rome’s Termini Station and I’m waiting for the Pope. Working for Caritas is never boring and can sometimes be quite surreal. This year is European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Caritas Europa has launched a big [...]
February 1, 2010
Davos:the Final Day
By Lesley-Anne Knight, Secretary General, Caritas internationalis Read this entry in French or Spanish Returning to Rome from Davos, I have mixed feelings about this year’s World Economic Forum. I have been encouraged by the discussions on values, which have featured prominently this year and have been the main focus of my contributions. It has [...]
January 29, 2010
Caritas Europa launch ‘Zero Poverty’ campaign
By Marius Wanders, Secretary General, Caritas Europa The official ‘launch event’ of the Caritas Europa campaign ‘Zero Poverty’ and the official publication of the study paper ‘Poverty Among Us’, both in the context of the European Year 2010 for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, took place very successfully in the European Parliament buildings in Brussels [...]
